My best computer, the Athlon 64 X2 in my sig, has onboard Radeon Xpress200 graphics. I'm using the open-source radeon driver and it seems to do fine with my 1600x1200 LCD monitor. However, my glxgears scores are bad and I don't think the radeon open-source driver does 3D.

I have never been able to install the VL proprietary ATI driver, as it complains of an error and fails. I downloaded ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run from ATI and tried to install it from that file. It also gives an error and fails:

VL6 SOHO Deluxe uses Xorg 1.6.3, which is quite a bit newer than 7.4. The error message above is something I can't understand at all (meaning it's beyond my powers to comprehend). Is there any hope for installing the proprietary driver?--GrannyGeek

I downloaded the file yesterday from ATI's Web site (now AMD), so I assume it's the latest. ATI is very bad about maintaining Linux support for older cards/chips so maybe the Radeon Xpress 200 has fallen through the cracks. This computer was purchased in January 2006 and has an ASUS OEM motherboard for Hewlett Packard.